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Sense and Sensibility

So it’s goodbye Cornelissens hello Halfords. Laura Gascoigne parks her brush and tries to follow the instructions for flatpack

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art, but has the picture upside down It’s a dull job being a customs officer, sitting on 404 Not Found the border twiddling your

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thumbs until the next teenage drugs mule comes along. So it must have added to the gaiety of nations when […]

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Overkill: art rising from the dead

Things have gone rather

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quiet on the mortality front since queues stretched around the White Cube block in Mason’s Yard for a sight of Damien Hirst’s £50m sculpture For the Love of God. In those
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days of skulls and diamonds, Paul Wilks wrote 404 Not Found a letter to The Jackdaw lamenting the morbidity of contemporary art, wondering why two horrific world wars […]

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The way we are now – why ‘avant garde’ is now an obsolete term

The Times – God bless its little cotton socks – has just been celebrating the triumphal return of the 1990s as a creative

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force. “Suddenly contemporary art” it crows, “was part of
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popular culture. The Royal Academy’s landmark Sensation show in 1997 was a turning point.” It 404 Not Found was so indeed, but not exactly in the terms the article intends. Here […]

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1988 … Year zero

… when branding

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and art formed a marriage of convenience, argues

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artist John Kelly. 1988 is the seminal year, the year that our concepts of art, money and values changed irredeemably. It was the year I came to 404 Not Found London as a 23-year-old artist, having taken an opportunity to play league cricket in London. It was a chance for a young […]